Israel's Defense Strategy, Two Years After October 7

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : At the insistence of then Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, Israel also ruled out the application of a "military government" in parts of Gaza where Hamas would be defeated.
52% : It has no equivalents to the US Quadrennial Defense Review, the DOD's Roles and Missions report, or the Annual Message of the Secretary of Defense to the US Congress.
51% : The decision to focus initially on the north was not changed until many months later, when in May and June 2024, the IDF's main effort in Gaza shifted to the southern part of the Strip, to gain control of Khan Yunis, Rafah, and the Philadelphi Corridor that runs parallel to the Egypt-Gaza Border.
49% : " Unintentionally or deliberately, Israel also took measures that not only enhanced Hamas' rule in Gaza but also strengthened it in its competition with its primary rival, the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.
49% : Had it considered the ease with which it might overtake the Gaza Division headquarters and the Israeli communities located along the border as a realistic scenario, it might have taken measures to limit the brutality of its fighters and to prevent Palestinian civilians residing in communities on the Gaza side of the border from entering the breached fence and joining the slaughter.
46% : That change was further enhanced as top CENTCOM commanders pointed out that closer ties with Israel could also help to prevent it from taking measures that Arab leaders would likely view as destabilizing.
46% : At the time of writing, Israeli, US, and Syrian sources have all indicated that al-Shara and Netanyahu are close to concluding a defense agreement that may extend beyond simply restoring the Israeli-Syrian Disengagement Agreement, which then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger mediated in 1974.
45% : Stationed together with senior IDF officers under the same roof in Tampa, senior Arab military officers now dropped their previous reluctance to discuss their relations with their Israeli counterparts in public.
45% : Similarly, while Israel punished the Palestinian Authority for supporting families of terrorists who died or were serving jail terms by deducting funds from the money that Israel owed to the PA, the Israeli government worked diligently to make sure that the financial needs of the terror state of Hamas would be fully met.
42% : This, in turn, allowed Hamas to continue to exercise control in these areas and to launch limited attacks against IDF troops who maneuvered in proximity to these locations.

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